COASTER FOUNDERS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 71, 16 December 1933, Page 9

COASTER FOUNDERS

Crew of Nine Drowned

HEAVY NORTH SEA GALE (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, December 14. A vessel seen to sink off Aldeburgh, Suffolk, during yesterday’s gale was to-day identified by wreckage as the coasting vessel Culmore, 469 tons, of London. Her crew of nine were all drowned. The gale abated during the night, but increased later, and heavy seas were again running to-day in the North Sea and English Channel. Cross-chan-nel services were again curtailed, and boats ran from Folkestone and not from Dover. In London the weather was several degrees colder to-day, and, although the sun shone from a cloudless sky, the temperature remained below freezing point. Skating is proceeding, and many of the smaller rivers are frozen. The unusual absence of rain has reduced the water in the streams, several of which are ice-covered for the first time for'many years. LIGHTSHIP AGROUND Survivors Shelter in Lantern London, December 14. The Dunkirk lightship Dyck, originally reported to have been sunk, was found aground near Gravelines. Four of the crew were drowned. Rescue boats saved three of four who had taken refuge in the lantern. GROUNDED AND SANK Fate of Ship in Baltic Helsingfors, December 14. The barque Plus grounded near Kobbiklintar in a fierce gale and sank almost immediately. A rescue ship saved four, but the captain and eleven seamen were drowned. ,